Re: Call for help: Future of the Fedora i3 Spin in Fedora Linux 45

Justin Wheeler venit, vidit, dixit 2026-06-30 01:30:18:
> Hello i3wm SIG & Fedora community,
> 
> I'm reaching out to the SIG about the future of the Fedora i3 Spin as
> we work through the Fedora Linux 45 release cycle.
> 
> As some of you know, I was involved with the i3 SIG as a maintainer in its
> earlier days, and I care a lot about the work this community has built
> together. But I want to be honest about where things stand: active
> maintenance of the Spin has been light in recent release cycles. We need to
> determine if there are people ready to carry this forward, or if it's time
> to make a graceful exit.
> 
> 
> *## What needs to happen*
> 
> The Fedora i3 Spin needs active maintainers to keep shipping.

Thanks for taking care of the i3 spin so far.

I'm a former i3 user, current sway user, and I've never used a spin
other than Workstation. This is no criticism of any of the spins, just a
point of input that not every "niche DE" user is necessarily a spin
user. OTOH, there's quite some value in maintaining the DE packages and,
in particular, base config, even if there is no such spin. I know this
is different for atomic variants, but I'm wondering whether i3/sway
folks are really those who'd use a pre-baked atomic image, or rather a
base for their own (bootc?) images.

Speaking of the future: How much effort do we (does someone) want to put
into a DE which requires an X11 stack?

Michael
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